Spring-heel for shoes.



J. S1 MEAGHAM.' SPRING HEEL PoRsHoEs. APPLICATION FILED MAY 19, 1909.

Panama Jan. 3, 1911.

THE Namens Perales co1, wnsumcrow, n. c.

JUSTIN S. MEACI-IAM, OF BOYNE, MICHIGAN.

SPRING-HEEL FOR SHOES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 3, 1911.

Application led May 19, 1909. Serial No. 496,950.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JUSTIN S. MlnAoHAM, a citizen of the United States,residing at Boyne, in the county of Charlevoix and State of Michigan,have invented new and useful Improvements in Spring-Heels for Shoes, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to spring heels for shoes, and has for an objectto provide a device of this character which can be manufactured chieflyfrom metal, and which when in operation will present an elastic tread.

Other objects and advantages will be apparent as the nature of theinvention is better set forth, and it will be understood that changeswithin the scope of the claim may be resorted to Without departing fromthe spirit of the invention.

In the drawing, forming a portion of this specification and in whichlike numerals of reference indicate similar parts in the several viewsz-Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portion of the shoe showing partsbroken away and showing the application to the shoe of my improvedspring heel. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the lower member of the heel.Fig. 3 is a detail enlarged section through the heel.

Referring now more particularly to the drawing, there is shownparticularly in Fig. 1 a shoe A which may be of any suitableconstruction, and as shown the said shoe is provided .with my improvedspring heel 1 consisting of an upper hollow metallic member 2 having abody portion 3 secured by means of a screw or suitable fastening deviceto the shoe A at the heel end thereof, and this body has dependingtherefrom a plurality of flanges 4L disposed in spaced relation to eachother. A lower member 5 is provided and is somewhat similar inconstruction to the upper member 2 and consists of a main body 6 havinga plurality of upwardly extending guide flanges 7 disposed inwardly ofthe flanges 4: upon the upper member.

The body portion 6 of the lower member is provided with a series ofrecesses or cavities 8 in which the heads 9 of bolts or fasteningdevices 10 are disposed. The bolts or fastening devices just describedextend through passages 11 formed in the body portion 6 of the lowermember of the heel and the upper threaded ends of the said bolts areengaged with nuts 12. The nuts 12 are seated in correspondingly formedrecesses in the body portion 3 of the upper member 2 of the heel. A pairof leaf springs 13 is employed, and as illustrated each spring isdisposed between the body portions 3 and 6 of the upper and lowermembers of the heel and each spring is operatively connected with one ofthe herein described bolts 10. The springs as herein shown are ofelliptical form, but may be of any obvious formation as will be readilyunderstood.

The lower member of the heel has removably secured thereto a combinedwear plate and stop 141 which extends across the passages or cavities 8formed in the body portion 6 of the lower member of the heel and issecured to said body portion in any suitable manner. The constructionjust described is such that the wear plate or stop is normally disposedin spaced relation to the heads 9 of the bolts 10 and the said plate aswill appear obvious serves as means to prevent the outward movementbeyond a predetermined point of the lower member of the heel and is thusprovided to hold the parts or members against casual displacement. Aheel as herein shown and described is extremely simple in constructionmay be attached to shoes of the ordinary type or form and will be foundextremely desirable when in use and will resent suficient elasticity toentirely obvlate the use of rubber for the heel of the shoe.

I claim In a spring heel shoe, upper and lower relatively movable heelmembers, springs of elliptical form interposed between the members andhaving their upper and lower opposite portions bearing directly againstthe inner faces of the said upper and lower members, the said lowermember having apertures formed therein and having recessessurroundingthe apertures andopening directly onto the lower surface ofthe member, combined guide and fastening cesses in the bottom member andsecured to screws extendmgthrough the springs andk the bottom face ofthesaid lower member. lo operatively connecting the said upper and. Intestimony whereof I utx my signature lower members of the heel with eachother, in presence of two witnesses.

heads formed on thev lower edsof the said Y JUSTIN S. MEACHAM.Vfastening screws and seated in. the recesses Vtnesses:

in the said bottom member, and a, combined Y .i S. C. SMITH,

wear4 and housing plate covering the rev CLAUDE A. JULENWILE.

